Mystics | Nostradamus: The Arophecary | 1

Speaker 10:00

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Peter Frankopan· Host0:15

[gentle music] Today we're gonna be talking about a man whose name has become synonymous with his ability to see the future. If a major catastrophic global event happens, you can pretty much bet that within 24 hours someone on the internet will claim that this guy predicted it hundreds of years ago.

Afua Hirsch· Host0:33

We're talking about major events like the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the assassination of JFK, the September 11th attacks on the US. According to this man's believers, he foresaw it all. He is the ultimate historic conspiracy theorist's dream, the 16th century French astrologer, philosopher, physician, and reputed seer, Michel de Nostredame, better known to us all as Nostradamus.

Peter Frankopan· Host1:04

He became huge, Afua, in the 1980s, I think as we were living in an age of anxiety and the worry about global war and famine and disaster. So he is one of those people who's suddenly kinda got a cult following a few hundred years later. So I don't know whether Nostradamus played a role when, when you were growing up, but he's popped up as being the only guy who could see the future from the past. I don't know whether he has a resonance in your childhood,